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I finally put together and have basecoated my baneblade... I know I am missing quite a lot of it, but there's detail I want to do like under the exhaust system and the engine areas and so on. However, I am at a loss to what colour to paint the guns! The baneblade itself is supposed to be an urban combat vehicle, and so should look a bit more urban.

here's pics.

Give it a black/brown dip. That should fix everything.

I vote for painting the whole tank in the same black/purple scheme as the back panel, it would look sweet.

The marbling effect at the back was inadvertent actually. It was too hot for undercoating and the spray undercoat dried too fast, resulting in the effect.

The whole thing is actually painted up, 1:1:1 combo of codex grey, chaos black and blue wash. Tracks are mithril silver and will be drybrushed tin bitz. The golds are done brazen brass then shining gold. Engines are brazen brass and the shrine is brazen brass as well.

I will be blending a couple of random areas graveyard earth over a beastial brown on the top hull down the sides. Guns I still am not sure what to paint them...so I will need some help deciding with that.

The weapons can be painted three ways:

Bold: A contrasting primary, like terracota or Merchite red, with mettalic bits
Conservative: a complementary color, either codex grey or space wolf grey.
Traditional: paint the mountings the same as the hull, paint the barrels metallic.

As for the choice, it depends on what the rest of your army looks like. Bold is a little more late 90's: back when marines carried red bolters and the like, but it really will make the weapons pop which isn't a bad thing. The conservative probably will look bland, while the traditional is never a bad call, after all, its what real world tanks are generally painted.

Yeah, Im a traditionalist myself. Everything in the army has to match paterns, and/or paint schemes.

I think I will actually paint the guns with a 1:1 mix of brazen brass and chaos black, then highlight with brazen brass.

Mounts will be painted codex grey.